 | English literature - 1812 - 708 pages
...with a great number of other ecclesiastics, subscribed this proposition, " that in the New Testaincnt there is no mention made of any degrees or distinctions...deacons or ministers, and of priests or bishops." Bat-net, ut supra, p. 324. Cranmer says : " In the New Testament, he that is appointed a bishop or... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 764 pages
...civilians and divines, among whom were J3 bishops, Cranmer and others, affirms, .that in the New Testament there is no mention made of any degrees or distinctions, in orders, but only of deacons or ministers, and priests or bishops. It was also the opinion of archbishop Usher, that bishop and presbyter diHered... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Dissenters, Religious - 1818 - 326 pages
...is asserted, " That in the New " Testament there is no mention made of any degrees or dis" tinctions in orders, but only of deacons or ministers, and of " priests or bishops.'' The same declaration occurs iu the book called " The Erudition of a Christian Man, composed " by the... | |
 | Religion - 1830 - 758 pages
...period, which states, that "in the new testament there is no mention of any degree or distinction of orders, but only of deacons or ministers, and of priests or bishops."* This declaration was signed by thirty-seven distinguished civilians and divines, and by thirteen bishops.... | |
 | John Lewis - 1820 - 444 pages
...Archdeacons, and seventeen Doctors of Di- Ma "> folvinity, Canon and Civil Law, that " in the New Testament " there is no mention made of any degrees or distinctions...Deacons or Ministers, and of " Priests or Bishops." It is altogether as wise and judicious a remark that he makes on Bishop Reginald Pecock, whom he in... | |
 | John Lewis - 1820 - 450 pages
...the Clergy that first was kunning and holy of life was * The trouthe is, that in the Newe Testament* there is no mention made of any degrees or distinctions in Orders, but onely of Deacons or Ministers, and of Priestes or Byshops. Nor there is any worde spoken of any other... | |
 | 918 pages
...eleven bishops and twenty canonists, in which it is said, " the truth is that in the New Testament there is no mention made of any degrees or distinctions in orders, but only of ministers or deacons, and of priests or bishops." The same thing is said almost in the same words "... | |
 | 874 pages
...with a great number of other ecclesiastics, subscribed the proposition — " that in the New Testament there is no mention made of any degrees or distinctions in orders, but only deacons or ministers, and of priests or bishops." In perfect accordance with these sentiments is the... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1831 - 346 pages
...did elect, call and admit thereunto, by their prayers, and imposition of their hands. " The truth is, there is no mention made of any degrees or distinctions...of deacons or ministers, and of priests or bishops. A DECLARATION MADE OF THE FUNCTIONS AND DIVINE INSTITUTION OF BISHOPS AND PRIESTS, Regno Hen. viii.,... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1831 - 466 pages
...did elecl, call and admit Ihereunlo, by iheir prayers, and imposition of iheir hands. " The truth is, there is no mention made of any degrees or distinctions...but only of Deacons or Ministers, and of Priests or Sishops."—A DECLARATION MADE or THE FUNCTIONS AND DIVINE INSTITUTION OF BISHOPS AND PRIESTS, Jtcgnu... | |
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The truth is, that in the New Testament there is no mention made of any degrees or distinctions in orders, but only of deacons or ministers, and of priests or bishops. 
